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Awww, another Obsidian project put to ice? I demand to know who did that so I can have ... an encounter with them.

Personally, I am all for the "things wearing down" concept, except I would prefer if all the things did it and the lower the durability, the higher chance of a critical failure (crit. miss for weapons, crit. hit for armor, if there are such things, if not, WHY NOT?) Then again, the whole thing and balancing of it is a potential money sink for Obsidian and I for one would be OK with no durability system at all. But at the end of the day, I trust Obsidian knows what they're doing and they're going to make a great game regardless of what durability system they choose, if any at all.

I have to ask - there are two combat scenes in the game that could be final. One is fighting Jeyne Kassynder of Jeyne Kassynder, the most Jeyne Kassynder of all Jeyne Kassynders. The 'other final' fighting scene is against the corrupted almost-god. It's not that the god-fight was bad, but I personally enjoyed the one with Jeyne much more - largely because of the sound assets and because the combat itself isn't so ... static (especially when playing as Lucas) while at the same time fighting the god thing had more "stages" and and other variables. I'm curious about other people's views on this and it might be useful feedback to Obsidian as well...

Yes. In front of their HQ with pitchforks and torches. I hate companies that hold an IP hostage even though the creators would be interested in making a sequel (or so I understand).

Alpha Protocol mentioned many times in the article and in the discussion below. Can we have AP2 yet? Can we buy the IP for Obsidian? CAN'T WE DO ANYTHING? And thanks for sharing the interview. Judging by the history, Obsidian is a pretty tough studio, heh. (I didn't know about that NC thing)

And what's the added value except being slightly more effective with SSDs and memory?

Yep, that looks pretty enough. Better than that, in fact. However, it reminds me: please don't forget about people having 16:10 displays, thank you very much Also, a related question: are the characters going to have lighting applied to them in the end or not? I personally wouldn't mind if they didn't or of it was really simple (like 3 levels of light).

Does anyone but MSFT fans trust them anymore? Every product they've made after Windows 7 was a failure (W8, WP7/8, XBone. Surface Pro is an expensive exception), they keep forcing things on people, they seem to be obsessed with becoming the second Apple and sucking private and statistical data on their users. I'm not getting anything from them until Ballmer and his people are kicked out.

That purple is actually my favorite color. YOU RACIST

Uh... I don't want to be nitpicking or anything, but horns on helmets (or shoulders, chest, back) don't really make sense. Unless the creator of animats was aware of the disadvantages and made them have horns for some reason. Certainly not for scaring people with, ectoplasm-person is scary on its own . The death concept looks pretty!

Yes please - with only minor changes over DS3.

I've finally got myself to buying the game and finishing it. I have no idea why did it get so many bad reviews, I find the game very addictive :S

Well, the thing about Steam is that you don't need to be online except for the logging in part and even that can be evaded by re-running in offline mode in which you can stay until you need to download/update a game. And people "love" Steam mainly because of the discounts and the fact that buying through it is as easy as pirating. It offers a lot of services too. Then again, XBox One will not be always-online, at least not on its own. It will, however, require you to connect Kinect (as several people here mentioned) and I have no doubts that it will nag players when they try to cover it...

That conference was so bad it probably gave me cancer. Ridiculous, pathetic, outrageous. To put it lightly... Cloud power, social features, TV, Kinect control...bah!

It's me again, hello and hi. I've always thought of Obsidian as of a community-driven studio of awesomeness. Then I think of Crate, which also is a community-driven studio, but I think they went a little further with it and that's advertising IRC channel on their forums. Things can be discussed there much faster and there even is a dev or two who sometimes even pay attention. The community is healthily growing, thinking of ideas that wouldn't be possible without an instant messaging chat and having more 'immediate' fun. I know there is the "ObsidianOrderOfEternity" channel, but that one's mostly dead and I'm personally not that fond of the whole "Order of Eternity" thing... I think it would be nice to have some place to hang out, discuss things related or not so related and if that place was advertised here and managed by trusted members or even forum mods, no? Also, I'm a bit of an IRC addict, hence my persistence about this. Sorry about that :3

The thing with Alpha Protocol is that in order for Obsidian to make a game with the "cinematic experience" they need more money than the kickstarter is able to provide. They would be better having 2 or 3 kickstarted games out there first bringing them money, so they could put 10 million of their own on top of the money they would make from kickstarter. Actually, I would be very interested in knowing how much did development of AP cost. By that I mean excluding that piece of crap marketing and completely useless publisher.

Alpha Protocol 2, please.

That's why you're so awesome. If you didn't love so far south, I would move to your are and stalk the office. Seriously though, from what I can tell, privately owned game industry companies are the best (from my point of view).

Well, open installing is useful for example for installing applications that don't earn Microsoft's "certification" for whatever reason. Having everything approved by MS may be useful, but there has to be an option for those who don't care about MS's monopoly on their phones (browsers, media players, search engines, etc...) Music -should- be tagged properly, but it's kinda difficult when you take care of 500k files (music, sounds, audiobooks, podcasts, radio shows....) and even if they were tagged properly, I would tag them by entire folders and that's an unnecessary and annoying step due to need of yet another 3rd party software. Sending files over BT has been in Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile 6/5. By not having it here MS only shows the desire to become a new Apple. I don't want to be near when that happens

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means. (even though it doesn't have a settled dictionary entry ^^ ) Though I agree that the final stages of the game should be just as good as the beginning, or even better. On the other hand, I fully trust Obsidian in this, they have proven they can handle it rather well (at least in my opinion).

Ah, but I want a phone that doesn't explode into billions of pieces when it falls to on concrete from 1m. And a nice camera. And really, screw Google. Plus, if I wanted a Linux phone, I'd get a proper one - Nokia N900 . I'm aware I can't do those things on iPhones, which was one of the reasons why I went for Windows. Sadly, it turns out it's almost the same thing. How can people be OK with that (considering some phones that are years old could do more) is beyond me. Music player sorts songs by "album artist" instead of "artist" tags without any option to change it and it doesn't allow to filter music by folders. My Sansa Clip can do that. About contact synchronization - yes, it might be great if I was willing to trust Microsoft clouds and if it wasn't forced. What would I do with file explorer? Well, open files I want, move, copy and delete them, send them over BT, open them without having to search for an application it uses and use poorly designed search function of said application. Heh, by "options" I didn't mean mere looks of the phone. I mean, you can't even lock the automatic display rotation! :D Metro is pretty nice on cellphones, I've been saying that ever since I saw it

Rotting bodies (like in Age of Empires 2) would be nice too. Am I asking too much? Disappearing of bodies and of meshes caused by combat has always bothered me.

Well, the lack of user control for start. Then there is no file explorer, horrible music player, search button is annoying and useless, having to do workarounds to make the phone to not synchronize my private personal contacts with some cloud and all the other ways of trying to spy on the user. The variety of options you can change is laughable :/ . Then there is the lack of SD slot, the non-removable battery and inability to install applications outside of the Marketplace. You have no issues with the phone? Edit: Oh, and I'm not very fond of the word "app" :D

So, any of of you using a Windows phone? I got a Lumia 920 and it's been getting on my nerves for 3 days already

Are you sure that Obsidian doesn't get a share from sales? If it was such a bad deal, why would they agree to it? Just for the joy of making a new Fallout with elements of Van Buren?